Lifestyle Intervention: Study Design and Data Analysis

4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Lecture, three hours. Requisites: course 100 or 200A, and one course from 212, 401, M403, Biostatistics 100, 200A, 201A, or 211A. Primarily offered for epidemiology students, but open to other school of public health students with consent of instructor. Designed to teach students how to apply principles of trial design and data analysis to lifestyle interventions for the purposes of preventing the onset and progression of diseases. Focuses on noncommunicable chronic diseases, but the concepts and methods can be applied to acute and infectious diseases as well. S/U or letter grading.